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Two Middle East experts examine the internal and foreign policy challenges faced by Syrian leader Bashar al-Asad since he went from being an ophthalmologist to succeed his father as president in 2000.
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland and author of "The Stakes: America and the Middle East" (Westview Press)
David Lesch, professor of Middle East history, Trinity University, Texas, and author of "The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria" (Yale University Press)
Essays by 26 women on their choices regarding motherhood, child-care and working.
Leslie Morgan Steiner, executive with The Washington Post.